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Refined the XHTMLtoRSS XSL template's new "Links" mode transformation to exclude mailto: links.
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Created a simple new SentenceCase XSL template to transform the initial letter of a phrase to uppercase. Applied the sentence case transformation to the RSS title content for the new Links mode of the XHTMLtoRSS template.
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Added answers to the CSS, media dependent style sheets, Java servlets and Javascript FAQ pages. Also added a ViewSource servlet link to the DOM1 visibility menus article to show the source of the page itself; one with line numbering, one without.
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Added a more general "Links" processing mode to the XHTMLtoRSS XSL transformation, which forms RSS items from standard hyperlinks in paragraphs. This is a great improvement over the ultimate fallback "Basic" mode.
Testing Links mode revealed an exceptional case in the Domain-Extractor XSL where there is no trailing slash after a simple domain address. Added an xsl:choose element to test the length of the $host-length variable before taking the substring of the original URL.
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Added methods to AbstractMockServletResponse to assign the PrintWriter and ServletOutputStream instances used by getWriter and getOutputStream directly.
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Created a new IncludePanel to add to the AWT LogManager tool, for copying log file lines by inclusion. Manually checked correct operation of the underlying TextCopier class, which selectively copies lines that match a simple text pattern.
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Added FAQ answers for the Java programming, Java servlets and font sampler sections:
forward, include and redirection?
Archived the past year's site log contents to a new site log contents 2004 page.
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Added a flag to the JDBC MockResultSet next method to return so that it only returns true for the first call to prevent endless loops in testing.
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